Places lauralos99 Wants to Go

This iconic hilltop church doubled as a lighthouse in the 19th century, guiding ships into the port of Valparaíso.

The ruins of a pre-Columbian fortress city so secure it held off the Spanish conquistadors for over 20 years.

Pablo Neruda's custom-built lover's nest was made to remind him of the sea and named after his mistress' hair.

The gorgeous murals at this open-air museum form the largest street art collective in Chile.

You can swim in these highly salty, mesmerizingly blue lakes in the Atacama Desert.

A 300-foot-long Cold War submarine floats in a Chilean River as a maritime museum.

The ruins of a grand theater destroyed during the most powerful seismic catastrophe ever recorded.

This bright yellow bridge is a true engineering feat.

Locals visit this abandoned train tunnel where a man took his own life to ask favors of his spirit.

Buying your medicine at this particular pharmacy is like taking a trip back in time.

A surprisingly detailed model of the world's most powerful radio telescope.

This fairytale house on the shore of a Chilean Lake oozes an eclectic mix of Chilote and German Cultural heritage.

Dedicated to the first German Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, this aging edifice is the only one of its kind in the Americas.

A charmingly unusual prefabricated metal church designed by Alexandre Gustave Eiffel.

A beautiful little bookshop located in the middle of a desert.

South America's oldest surviving locomotive.

One of the world's most complete mineralogical collections.

The “City of Stairs” sits high in the Andes, above the world’s largest underground copper mine.

This forgotten beach house built to look like a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece overlooks a hidden beach.

Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.

The young Black revolutionary was killed before getting to see a non-segregated pool in his hometown.

Towns with a resource known as "white gold," valuable enough to fight a war over, now stand ghostly and empty.

One of Chile's most active volcanoes is riddled with beautiful caves.

A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.